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Spellbinders and Martha Stewart Punch With Close To My Heart Backdrop Stamp
Martha Stewart Spider Web Punch Around the Page Set on bottom black layer This was such a fun card to make. I knew that I wanted to make a square card to use the Spider Web punch around the page to show it’s cool design capabilities. The black web was layered on a 5″ x…
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Black and White Hello Card
Photographed in daylight I really like monochromatic and two color designs. Whether it is in quilts, home decor, or paper crafts…. it doesn’t matter to me. I’m always drawn to the simplicity of fewer colors. The other day I had stamped this big floral background stamp with black ink on white cardstock but didn’t use…
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Excess Postage
Please click on image to get a better view A few days ago it occurred to me that since I almost always have to pay extra postage to send the cards I have made, because of the embellishments I’ve put on them, why not super size them? So size no longer matters to me! This…
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6 x 6 Vintage Garden Green Card
Vintage poster is from Dover This is my offering for the Day 172 Vintage Plus Green challenge on 365 Cards. I have had so much fun digging through my stash and finding retired papers that are perfect for these challenges this week. This B & T designer paper is from CTMH’s Veranda collection. The ribbon,…
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Easy Lace Flowers
The card is 5″ x 7″ and opens in the middle to reveal the gorgeous That’s Amore paper. Today’s Vintage Card challenge on 365 Cards is to have the dominant color Pink. I knew immediately that I’d have to use some of my all time favorite B & T paper from CTMH. It is retired…
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Card Sketch Day 170 Vintage Plus Blue
I’m having so much fun with these Vintage Plus …. sketches from 365 Cards. Today’s dominant color is blue. For the vintage-y feel, I went with embossing vellum with the Textile Cuttlebug folder. I love the look of vellum and embossed vellum is just so cool! The card stock, marker and brads are Not Quite Navy…
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Card Sketch Day 169 Vintage Plus Black
Yesterday, I posted about the Vintage Plus Red Card Sketch at 365cards.blogspot.com. Today’s challenge is to make a vintage inspired card with black as the dominant color. Easy Peasy! I love black! The floral frame is an old SU! background stamp that I embossed with clear powder after stamping on Daisy White CTMH CS with…
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National Stamping Month Pair-a-Phrase Double Stamp Set
August-September Constant Campaign To celebrate National Stamping Month in September, Close To My Heart is offering their first-ever double stamp set! You can get the exclusive My Acrylix® Pair-a-Phrase double stamp set FREE when you place an order of $75 US / $82 CAN from August 15 through September 30, 2011. You’ll love this double set—two…
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Card Sketch Day 168 Vintage Plus Red
The scallop edges and paisley gives this a vintage vibe. Maybe not a true vintage representation, more like 1970’s vintage-y. Yesterday, I stumbled across this really fun website that has daily sketch challenges. 365 Cards is an easy name to remember and lo and behold, I did remember! Today I went back to see whether or…
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Winter Joy Birthday Card
It may appear that I’m on a Martha Stewart Around the Page Punch kick. Ummm, maybe so. Here is another 6″ x 6″ card made with the Flower Shower punches. I glued all the little flowers from the punches onto the 5″ x 5″ cardstock center. The following picture of the inside sentiment shows the…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 